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Breeding / Calving Issues
Play catch up or just sell and replace?
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<blockquote data-quote="RDFF" data-source="post: 1793339" data-attributes="member: 39018"><p>All are good suggestions, IMO. False weaning would be helpful. Putting bulls in early will help in several ways, some hormonal, some just catching cows on that first heat and breeding them, whether they settle or not... some will catch, some won't, but on that second heat, surely you'll catch a high percentage of them. However, if you're after a very short calving window, you'll probably want to wait until at least the biggest group of earlier calvers are about 45 days past calving... thereby breeding THEM on their second heat cycle post partum, and the late calvers on their first, and if they don't catch on that, then on their second cycle. That would bring them closer together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RDFF, post: 1793339, member: 39018"] All are good suggestions, IMO. False weaning would be helpful. Putting bulls in early will help in several ways, some hormonal, some just catching cows on that first heat and breeding them, whether they settle or not... some will catch, some won't, but on that second heat, surely you'll catch a high percentage of them. However, if you're after a very short calving window, you'll probably want to wait until at least the biggest group of earlier calvers are about 45 days past calving... thereby breeding THEM on their second heat cycle post partum, and the late calvers on their first, and if they don't catch on that, then on their second cycle. That would bring them closer together. [/QUOTE]
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